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NEWSALERT: Friday, March 22, 2002 @ 1504 GMT --------------------------------------------------------------------- The latest news from Astronomy Now and Spaceflight Now
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NEW EVIDENCE: EXPANSION OF UNIVERSE IS ACCELERATING --------------------------------------------------- A team of UK and Australian astronomers has discovered new, independent evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. Their findings have just appeared in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
A team of 27 astronomers led by Professor George Efstathiou of the University of Cambridge has published strong evidence for the existence of dark energy using an entirely different technique.
Their results show that the universe is full of dark energy, completely consistent with the earlier supernovae results. "Dark energy appears to exist and to dominate over more conventional types of matter" says Professor Efstathiou. "An explanation of the dark energy may involve String Theory, extra dimensions or even what happened before the Big Bang. At present nobody knows. The ball is now firmly in the theorists court."
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0203/22expansion/
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